Monday, April 25, 2011

Estes Park's annual Rotary Duck Race is just twelve days away on May 7 and the duck committee volunteers are busy with a multitude of preparations. My main task this year is entering adoption form information on each duck sold into a computer at Duck Central. This keeps me busy most week-day afternoons Monday - Friday.

I'm also helping Wayne (Mother Duck) write numbers on new ducks to replace the ones lost last year. He reads off the numbers and I print them on the bottoms of new ducks - a boring, but necessary, task. Several hundred ducks are lost every year.

We got several inches of wet snow overnight. We're hoping that race day will be sunny and free of precipitation, snow, hail or rain. But the race will be run in any weather.

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A Bit About Me

I've lived in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado with my wonderful husband since March 2000. It is paradise for me. I am a retired teacher and keep busy with quilting, crafting, volunteering, reading and visiting my children and grandchildren.

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A Bright Spot of Color

My Christmas cactus is in radiantly full bloom.

Frosted Pines

Bull Elk in our Yard

Wayne has an ongoing battle with this big boy who attacks the fence around our aspen.

Cloud Journal

My dad was a meterologist and he sparked my interest in all things weather. Ever since I was a little girl I've especially loved clouds. In the summertime, my sister and I used to lie on our backs in the cool grass finding shapes and pictures in the clouds and telling stories about the images we saw before they disappeared or changed into something else. I've been photographing clouds to make a cloud journal. Here are a few and I'll add to this journal from time to time.